Word: affrighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notorious reputation of English A1 must have spread beyond the confines of Cambridge to affright prospective Freshmen. This year sees 170 of the class of 1933 allowed to pursue more interesting fields of knowledge, while their more unfortunate classmates are subjected to the pressure of the educational machine, which is supposed in this particular instance, to turn out the enlightened English student...
Imperialist Bruce. Such lack of enthusiasm for the Empire, such emphasis upon the Commonwealth, naturally displeased Premier Bruce. His Australia, with but 5,000,000 population, looks with affright at teeming Japan and for protection to a well-knit Empire. Therefore Premier Bruce declared with emphasis to the press...
...parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical values. It is a book which need not affright the intellectually lazy: it is a book which to the intellectually wearied may provide keen relaxation...
...Liszt, with a diamond in his dinner-shirt, collapses, babbling, on a night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care shrinks in affright from the hard, slit eyes, the waiting jowls of Broadway, the Loop, the Barbary Coast. Said Critic Carl Van Vechten...
...with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...